# Senior Accountant

**Company**: Cohere
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: CA$150K - CA$195K
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cohere is at the forefront of AI innovation, building cutting-edge language models and AI systems. Our Finance team plays a critical role in supporting our rapid growth and ensuring operational excellence.

As a Senior Accountant, you will:

- Own assigned areas, including journal entries and complex balance sheet reconciliations, together with the related internal controls.

- Prepare the consolidated financial statements, including the statement of cash flows, and support various management reporting requirements.

- Analyze fluctuation and variances and explain drivers and methodology to accounting leaders and finance partners.

- Maintain the chart of accounts, supporting account mapping, entity setup, and system changes.

- Record and reconcile intercompany transactions, including recharges, loans, and cost allocations.

- Run monthly intercompany matching and settlement, and resolve differences with counterparties across entities.

- Support eliminations in consolidation, and foreign currency remeasurement and translation, ensuring NetSuite processes operate correctly.

- Serve as the operational lead for close activities in Numeric, NetSuite, and related systems, maintain the close calendar and checklist, and flag risks or delays to the accounting leaders early.

- Partner with technology and systems teams to identify, pilot, and deploy automation and AI-enabled solutions across reconciliations, recurring analyses, exception triage, flux commentary, and evidence gathering.

- Implement and maintain robust accounting policies, procedures, systems, and internal controls.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure financial accuracy and support business growth.

- Leverage technology solutions to enhance accounting efficiency and accuracy.

You may be a good fit if you:

- Have 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with prior leadership in fast-paced environments.

- Hands-on experience with month-end close, GL accounting, and account reconciliations, using close management tools such as Numeric.

- Working knowledge of US GAAP, with experience preparing financial statements and supporting ad-hoc financial reporting requests.

- Experience with multi-entity accounting, including intercompany reconciliation, eliminations, and foreign currency.

- Experience with leveraging AI tools to build and improve workflows to achieve operational efficiency and accuracy.

- Demonstrate excellence in problem-solving and process improvement methodologies.

- Show proficiency with financial systems (NetSuite preferred, but not required).

- Exhibit strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across departments.

- Thrive in high-growth, dynamic environments with evolving priorities.

- Have experience building scalable accounting processes in technology companies.

Full-time employees at Cohere enjoy perks such as:

- A weekly lunch stipend of $75 or equivalent in local currency.

- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.

- RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.

- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.

- Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.

- Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.

- 6 weeks of paid vacation.

- Budget for traveling to other offices if remote, plus an annual company offsite.

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## Skills

### Required
- US GAAP
- GL accounting
- account reconciliations
- multi-entity accounting
- intercompany reconciliation
- foreign currency
- financial systems
- NetSuite
- problem-solving
- process improvement

### Nice to have
- AI tools
- automation
- data analysis

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